CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta. Personal Birth date: August 20, 1966 Birth place: Pisa, Italy Father: Giorgio Letta, a mathematics professor Mother: Anna (Banchi) Letta Marriage: Gianna Fregonara Children: Giacomo, Lorenzo, Francesco Education: University of Pisa, International Law, 1994; Scuola Superiore
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Personal: Birth date: August 21, 1973 Birth place: Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) Birth name: Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin Father: Michael Brin, mathematician and economist Mother: Eugenia Brin, NASA scientist Marriage: Anne Wojcicki (2007-2015, divorced); Nicole Shanahan (2018-2022, divorced) Children:
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Tour de France. July 1-23, 2023 – The 110th Tour de France takes place. Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins his second consecutive Tour de France title. July 1-24, 2022 – The 109th Tour de France takes place. Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins his first Tour
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild, Sarah Moon and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — After days of national controversy over the raid of a small town’s newspaper office and the publisher’s home, the items seized have been returned and will be examined by a forensic analyst, the Kansas paper’s co-owner and publisher told CNN on Wednesday. An attorney
Continue Reading By Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — The flames took so much in Lahaina. More than 2,200 homes and businesses – structures reduced to ashen piles in the angular plots on which they once stood; family cars and work vehicles, now hollowed out metallic shells packed in the streets; even boats that were caught in the
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi and Azaz Syed, CNN (CNN) — A crowd vandalized eight churches and several homes following accusations of blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan’s most populated province of Punjab on Wednesday, according to government authorities and residents, stoking tensions between local Muslim and minority Christian communities. The National Commission for Human Rights said the
Continue Reading By Caolán Magee and Hannah Holland, CNN (CNN) — A video of a tourist climbing into Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain to fill her water bottle has circulated online. The footage, filmed last month, shows the woman walking over a row of rocks to reach the center of the 18th-century landmark as onlookers watch in horror.
Continue Reading By Ruba Alhenawi, Hamdi Alkhshali and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — More than one million people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since April, according to the United Nations, as fighting between two warring factions plunges the country into civil war. The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than 3.4 million people inside the
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen remains were found in a gully high in the Tyrolean Alps by hikers in 1991, is perhaps the world’s most closely studied corpse. The mystery over his violent death, who he was and how he ended up on a mountain pass has sparked fascination
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head this week by a 9-year-old boy who got a hold of a gun inside a Florida home, authorities said. The younger child was taken Monday to a hospital, where he died, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D.
Continue Reading CNN By Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the home and office of a newspaper owner, prompting a sharp rebuke from a press freedom group and raising constitutional questions far beyond the small city in the state. The paper’s co-owner and publisher, Eric Meyer, said he believes Friday’s raid in
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing renewed scrutiny for apparently slowing load times for links to its competitors. While the platform has been plagued by technical issues after Elon Musk bought the site last year, many link delays this week appeared intentional, cybersecurity experts said, as
Continue Reading CNN By Alayna Treene, CNN Washington (CNN) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are in “ongoing negotiations” with the Fulton County District attorney’s office regarding details of his surrender, two sources familiar with the talks tell CNN. As of now, they have not yet landed on a date for when Trump will surrender, the
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Alex Stambaugh and Kostan Nechyporenko, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian forces have retaken the village of Urozhaine in the eastern Donetsk region, Kyiv said on Wednesday, after days of punishing battles as part of its counteroffensive against Russia. Andrii Kovalov, spokesperson of the Ukrainian military’s general staff, said on national television Wednesday morning
Continue Reading By Dawn Sawyer, Carrington Peavy and Chris Youd, CNN (CNN) — A three-person tribunal has recommended against the firing of a Georgia teacher who is at risk of being terminated after reading a book about gender identity to her fifth grade class, according to the teacher’s attorney. The Cobb County School District, which is in
Continue Reading By Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — The world is facing an “unprecedented water crisis” driven by soaring demand and the accelerating climate crisis, according to a new report. A quarter of the world’s population currently faces “extremely high water stress” each year, with an additional 1 billion people expected to be affected by 2050, according
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis (CNN) — Students in Arkansas public high schools enrolled in the controversial Advanced Placement African American Studies course will not be able to receive credit toward graduation, state education officials told districts last week. The direction from the Arkansas Department of Education came as teachers and students across the state were
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is the world’s most polluted city, according to a new study, and the country’s president may have the cough to prove it. Ministers in the Southeast Asian country confirmed this week that President Joko Widodo had been battling a cough for weeks and suggested
Continue Reading By Lauren Mascarenhas, Nouran Salahieh, Sara Smart and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — The death toll in the Maui wildfires is now 110, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said at a Wednesday news conference where officials faced often heated questions about the county’s actions as wildfire swept across the island last week, sending people scrambling for
Continue Reading By Su Chay, Sophie Jeong and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 32 people, a local fire services official told CNN on Wednesday. The landslide took place in the remote and mountainous town of Hpakant in the northern state of Kachin on Sunday,
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